The Spotted Bass

While we're talking about local websites, have you seen The Spotted Bass? Think The Onion about Kentucky sports, news and politics. But mostly sports.

The Consuming Louisville staff (um, that would be me) enjoys satire a great deal so we're looking forward to reading The Spotted Bass through the rest of this depressing football season and through a hopefully glorious Cardinal basketball season. We'd enjoy it even more if they'd get an RSS feed though.

Some quotes from The Spotted Bass that made us chuckle or in some cases even guffaw.

"University of Louisville head football coach Steve Kragthorpe announced at his weekly press conference Monday that he plans to grow a line beard, also known as a "chinstrap", in a desperate attempt to regain the trust of Cardinal fans.

“It appears the Papa John’s posse wants me to do two things: fix the defense and grow a line beard,” the embattled coach said. “I plan to do both.”

"Despite the Governor's troubles on the campaign trail, a new Bluegrass Trot poll shows the incumbent has a commanding lead over Democrat challenger Steve Beshear among likely non-voters in the November 6 gubernatorial election. Fletcher leads Beshear 94.2% to 5.8%, with 0% undecided (which was not an option in the poll).

In response to the Bluegrass Trot poll results and another poll among likely voters, which shows Beshear with a commanding lead, Fletcher campaign director and intern Jason Keller, one of the two remaining staffers, said, “Ernie Fletcher has always believed in the right not to vote and stay out of the elections altogether. We were actually thinking of changing the ‘No Casinos Tour’ to the ‘No Casinos and No One Can Force You to Vote Tour,’ but that seemed a little long. Ernie Fletcher and Robbie Rudolph have always believed in the non-voters. We fully support their rights, and we hope they all stay home for us.”